A dozen South Vietnamese farmers walk side-by-side in a large rice paddy, spraying their crop. Outline map of Vietnam and environs is superimposed on the moving scene. Two farmers threshing crop by hand. Two farmers pounding rice with a foot operated wooden device. A steam shovel lifting mineral-bearing earth. Vietnamese workers using hand tools to loosen ore and push it down the side of a hill, where another is seen pushing a small rail car loaded with ore. A worker cutting a rubber tree on a plantation, to collect its natural latex. Latex being processed in a factory. Workers in a spinning facility and others weaving large rolls of cloth by machine.
U.S. Army personnel at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. An official bus leaves Poligano Umberto I area. A sign on a building: ' Poligano Umberto I'. Italian soldiers marching past. 50 meters range showing wires with targets which travel back and forth. A pistol target range. An entry board. A sign: "50-Meters Range". Contestants (US Army) walking on Avenue of flags to the 50mm range building. Contestants with their weapons.
U.S. Army personnel at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Contestants (US Army) with their marksmanship weapons. Judges check the weapons of the contestants. The weapons lying on a table. They are weighed. A pistol is weighed on a weighing machine. The weapons are tagged and sealed Two judges inspect a pistol.
Opening scene shows view from cockpit of a jet aircraft approaching to land on deck of the U.S.Navy anti-submarine aircraft carrier, USS Bennington (CVS-20). The aircraft lands and then taxis as directed by crewman toward parking place. (Narrator mentions the Atlantic Alliance, involving 15 Nations.) Slate shows "NATO ANTISUBMARINE." Scenes of Atlantic Ocean waters, some breaking on rocks, some showing whitecaps. Montage of World War II scenes dealing with submarine threat. A submarine periscope visible above the surface. View of a surface vessel, from submarine's periscope. Glimpse from fast-moving boat, of World War II Atlantic convoy underway. Aerial view of convoy of ships in formation underway. Periscope in water and below water view of torpedo being fired. Torpedoes exploding as they strike Allied ships. Underwater view of a submarine. A torpedoed ship sinking with bow pointing skyward.
French personnel test the second A- bomb in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. The A-bomb test site for France in the Sahara desert. French personnel assemble for the country's second atomic bomb test and discuss. An official talks over a telephone. A button of equipment is pressed to initiate detonation of the bomb. The nuclear device explodes. A mushroom cloud rises.
Pope John XXIII elevates new cardinals in Vatican City. In St. Peter's Basilica, Pope John XXIII being carried on the sedia gestatoria chair with large white ostrich fans (flabella). The Pope is placed on a raised platform. The Archbishop of Tokyo, Cardinal Peter Tatsuo Doi, is elevated as the first Japanese cardinal in history. Cardinal Doi receives the Pope’s blessing. Pope John XXIII elevates Archbishop Laurean Rugambwa of Tanganyika (now known as Tanzania) as the first modern native African Cardinal. The new cardinals bend their head towards the altar.
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